[CincyLady]

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can you buy in direct to the Blackhawk event? or does Colorado law prohibit it?

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Complete details are in the links Cincylady so helpfully provided.

The answer to this question is that although the Colorado Gambling Commission has not yet given approval (based on the contents of the HPT's web page on the event) the structure they submitted indicates that you will not be able to buy-in directly. Apparently this is due to the max-buy-in allowed by current Colorado law. Other than this the setup is similiar to other HPT events. Some cheap sattelites to the main event qualifiers and the main event qualifiers (somewhere around 3-400). IIRC the site explicitly says that you can sell entries won to the qualifier or to the main event. If the gambling commission doesn't nix that then at least in theory you should be able to show up and buy an entry from someone.

The thought just occured to me that depending on supply and demand it is possible that the market rate for main event entries might be greater than face value.

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I still feel a tad nervous to post here after what happened to me (being banned), but you know what, on the HPT website, you are right. It does clearly state that the seats will be transferable.

HPT ME Seats normally go elsewhere on the HPT tour I've noticed, from $1,500 and up. Thus, there appears to be a way for people who are good sit and go players to make a fair piece of change here by winning ME seats, and then selling the public for that price.

BTW, I want to thank everyone who stood up for me, I think it helped me in getting restored again.

I still however, am going to be very cautious in what I post, as I never want to go through that experience ever again.

I'm going up to Blackhawk tonight BTW, to play in the FAN event at the Gilpin (the yearly event where they award at the end, a seat to a WPT event that takes place in December), and will stop by that hotel I promised to get the name of, and post it in here most likely tomorrow night.

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this is the first tourny that we have had here that is anywhere close to not being a crapshoot

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There are weekly tournaments in Black Hawk with slow structures in the $300-$500 range.

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The problem is RR, that none of them are structured to be direct buy ins for those amounts. They are all set up as rebuys (and also allow for participants to re-enter the tourney if they are knocked out and there are more seats open), which with how the locals play in live action (aka no fold 'em hold 'em poker) spilling into the Tourneys in Blackhawk, still makes the $300-500 events a crap shoot (because they are 100 buck rebuys).

If the Gilpin, Colorado Station, Ameristar, or The golden Gates would even once a month hold a $500 direct buyin event, then you'd be correct, it most likely would be a much better tourney. However, as it stands, the way it's structured (like the 100 buck rebuy event that the Gilpin runs), it's a crap shoot.

This and the fact that most events up there, ppl are allowed to re-enter the tourney (if they are knocked out, and if there are still seats open), add in the fact that none of the rooms in Blackhawk run Tourneys with antes in them, makes them more of a crap shoot.